Billing and collecting patient visits continue to challenge most healthcare providers and a frequent question often heard is “Can we bill a preventative medicine and new patient visit on the same day?”
As a point of reference, there are circumstances when a preventative visit and a problem-oriented visit could be billed on the same date. The problem: the uncertainty of what those circumstances are and differing policies among payers, including Medicare. Do they all agree with these rules for payment? During the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, Terry Fletcher, a nationally recognized professional coder, auditor and consultant, will describe the issue and report on the otherwise indistinguishable fine line between preventative and problem-oriented evaluation and management (E&M) visits.
The live broadcast will also feature these other segments: